The Healer's Touch
c/o Daniel Robitshek, MD
UCIMC - 101 The City Dr South - Bldg 26
Orange, CA 92868
United States
ph: 714 456-5960
fax: 714 456-7182
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Dr. Daniel Robitshek is Health Sciences Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He is a full-time Internal Medicine Specialist in the Hospitalist Program at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, California.
He has spoken at numerous local, national and international medical and lay conferences on the importance of returning to the core values of human connection and in incorporating patients' existential and spiritual perspectives in the delivery of healthcare.
He has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards as well as twice recipient of the Dean's Award for Compassion by the UC Irvine School of Medicine. He was nominated for the Association of American Medical Colleges' National Humanism in Medicine Award in 2004 for his dedication to teaching and role-modeling empathy to medical students.
In 2001, he was awarded a major grant by the Templeton Foundation/George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health to develop a curriculum in Spirituality in Medicine and is the Director of the Spritual Care Curriculum at UCI's School of Medicine.
Dr. Robitshek is Co-Director along with Dr. Johanna Shapiro of the Art of Doctoring Course at UCI's School of Medicine - a course dedicated to providing fourth-year medical students with tools to help strengthen the core human values of altruism and empathy in their interactions with patients, families and colleagues.
Dr. Robitshek is available to speak on various topics:
Spirituality at the End of Life
Medicine: Science, Business or Art?
Patient Satisfaction: Good Business or Bad Medicine?
The Patient-Doctor Interaction: Dealing With the Difficult Patient
The Patient-Doctor Interaction: Delivering Bad News
Back to the Future: Spirituality and Healthcare in the 21st Century
Spirituality and the Care of the HIV Patient
Taking a Spiritual History - What You Don't Know May Hurt You
The Empathy Void: End-of-Life Care and the Physician
Dealing with Difficult Emotions - Benevolence and Self-Care in Medicine
Suffering and the Practice of Medicine
Feel free to contact us at drobitsh@uci.edu.
The Healer's Touch is a not a new venue. It is a combination of a conceptual "think tank" and an educational outreach developed by Dr. Daniel Robitshek to help bring back the human connection in medical care. We are actively recruiting others to participate in both written and educational outreaches to the medical and lay community. It is a work in progress that will eventually encompass many aspects that remain in the building-block stage of development.
If you are interested in participating, please feel free to contact us at drobitsh@uci.edu.
The Healer's Touch
c/o Daniel Robitshek, MD
UCIMC - 101 The City Dr South - Bldg 26
Orange, CA 92868
United States
ph: 714 456-5960
fax: 714 456-7182
drobitsh